ROME - Italian literature has often been enriched by writers of the north-eastern frontier region where Italian, Germanic and Slavic cultures mingle.

ROME – The renowned Italian writer and film director Luciano De Crescenzo died Thursday, aged 90, after being hospitalised in the Eternal City two weeks ago with pneumonia, according to his publish

ROME – Thousands of “Rangers and Rovers” of the Scout organisation (boys and girls between 16 and 21) will come to Italy July 27 to August 3 in one of their biggest international gatherings of the

ROME – One of the richest collections of art from Magna Graecia, the world of Greek settlers in pre-Roman Italy, will once again be open to the public Thursday af

ROME - Shortly before the opening of his retrospective, conceptual artist Matt Stadleigh is found floating in the Thames. Suicide is suspected.

FLORENCE - The history of Italian Jews observed from a new and chromatically kaleidoscopic perspective, that of the art of fabric: it is The Colors of Judaism in Italy, a great exhibition

NAPLES – French American chef Michael Roper has finished second behind Raffaele Barresi of Pasticceria Capparelli in Naples, in the 2nd San Gennà … un Dolce per San Gennaro pastry competit

ROME - There have been many studies of Benito Mussolini and Rodolfo Valentino but Giorgio Bertellini’s ‘Il Divo and the Duce’ brings them together as celebrities whose seductive masculinity made a

ROME - Flavius Claudius Julianus Caesar, often referred to as "Julian the Apostate", was born in Constantinople in 331 A.D.

 ROME -- Désirée Giorgetti is a Milanese, French-Italian actress who came screaming and fighting onto the international stage after her debut film, Raffaele Picchio’s Morituris (2011),

ROME – The murky realm of cultural control, overseas “influence” in the face of declining “hard power,” was the subject of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC)’s most recent talk.

ROME – As part of a project to open to the public the maze of passages and chambers buried beneath the Roman baths, renowned artist Fabrizio Plessi’s exhibition offers one striking interpretation o

ROME - Tuscan reds are fast becoming the most loved wines across the world as recent export statistics boast of their strong performance in emerging American and Asian markets.

ROME - A pioneer and trend-setter in Italian 20th century film and opera, Franco Zeffirelli died last week aged 96 at hi

ROME – Palermo’s international documentary film festival Sole Luna Doc Film Festival presents in its 14^th edition the world premiere of “Freedom Women”, a series of six documentaries by

ROME - Born in London of a Bengali Indian parents, Jhumpa Lahiri is an esteemed novelist who teaches translation and creative writing at Princeton University.

ROME - The Rome Savoyards drew an impressive season of theatre and entertainment to a close with a rip-roaring interpretation of Rick Abbot’s “Play On!”, a farcical take on the amateurish realms of

ROME - English stage, screen and television actress Vanessa Redgrave is set to receive a Globo d’Oro for a glittering career that spans over 60 years when judges from the Rome Foreign Press Associa

ROME – Rome’s audience will once again have the opportunity to engage in a multicultural dialogue and dive into Romania’s fervent social, environmental and political aspects as the ProCult Romania

ROME - Prestigious Italian director Lina Wertmüller, who made history in 1977 for being the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar as best director for her film "Seven Beauties" (1975), is amongs

VENICE - The mysterious British graffiti artist executed his hallmark combination of artistic novelty and masterful self-promotion on the world’s most prestigious

VENICE – This year’s Biennale sees yet another exciting new addition: the inaugural exhibition of a diverse and innovative group of artists, the Miracle Workers Collective (MWC), in the national Pa

VENICE - The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia has opened an exhibition dedicated to Finnish artist Tapio Wirkkala to celebrate the 4^th edition of MUVE (Musei Veneziani) Contemporaneo.

ROME - A journalist friend in Rome who admired Federico Fellini wanted to write a book about him and got his agreement.  But after a series of broken appointments followed by improbable excuses, ac